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Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

Author of Being and Time

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About the Author

Martin Heidegger was born in Messkirch, Baden, Germany on September 22, 1889. He studied Roman Catholic theology and philosophy at the University of Frieburg before joining the faculty at Frieburg as a teacher in 1915. Eight years later Heidegger took a teaching position at Marburg. He taught there show more until 1928 and then went back to Frieburg as a professor of philosophy. As a philosopher, Heidegger developed existential phenomenology. He is still widely regarded as one of the most original philosophers of the 20th century. Influenced by other philosophers of his time, Heidegger wrote the book, Being in Time, in 1927. In this work, which is considered one of the most important philosophical works of our time, Heidegger asks and answers the question "What is it, to be?" Other books written by Heidegger include Basic Writings, a collection of Heidegger's most popular writings; Nietzsche, an inquiry into the central issues of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy; On the Way to Language, Heidegger's central ideas on the origin, nature and significance of language; and What is Called Thinking, a systematic presentation of Heidegger's later philosophy. Since the 1960s, Heidegger's influence has spread beyond continental Europe and into a number of English-speaking countries. Heidegger died in Messkirch on May 26, 1976. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Martin Heidegger in der Hütte , 1968

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Works by Martin Heidegger

Being and Time (1927) 3,249 copies
Basic Writings (1977) — Author — 1,486 copies
Poetry, Language, Thought (1971) 1,255 copies
An Introduction to Metaphysics (1935) — Author — 1,144 copies
Being and Time (1962) 1,123 copies
What Is Called Thinking? (1968) 696 copies
On the Way to Language (1959) 471 copies
Discourse on Thinking (1966) 369 copies
Off the Beaten Track (1950) 272 copies
Identity and Difference (1969) 259 copies
Existence and Being (1949) 240 copies
On Time and Being (1972) 219 copies
Pathmarks (1978) 211 copies
Parmenides (1942) — Author — 198 copies
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (1960) 195 copies
Early Greek Thinking (1975) — Author — 176 copies
The Principle of Reason (1957) — Author — 173 copies
What is Philosophy? (1956) 171 copies
What is Metaphysics? (1929) 170 copies
The Concept of Time (1924) 156 copies
Letter on Humanism (1947) 155 copies
What Is a Thing? (1967) 134 copies
Vorträge und Aufsätze (1954) 118 copies
Heraclitus Seminar (1970) — Author — 117 copies
Basic concepts (1985) 108 copies
Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) (2000) — Author — 100 copies
The End of Philosophy (1973) 99 copies
Plato's Sophist (1992) — Author — 87 copies
Nietzsche (1961) — Composer — 80 copies
Mindfulness (1997) 76 copies
The Question of Being (1949) — Author, some editions — 68 copies
Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy (1993) — Author — 60 copies
Being and Truth (2000) 51 copies
Country path conversations (1991) — Author — 41 copies
Die Technik und die Kehre. (1962) 37 copies
Correspondence 1949-1975 (2004) — Author — 36 copies
The essence of reasons (1969) 35 copies
The Event (2009) 34 copies
Kunst und der Raum (1979) 34 copies
Sojourns: The Journey to Greece (1992) — Author — 33 copies
Der Feldweg (2001) 33 copies
German Existentialism (1965) 31 copies
Varat och tiden. D. 1 (1981) 26 copies
Hegel (2014) 22 copies
Briefwechsel 1920 - 1963. (1990) 22 copies
Questions I et II (1990) 20 copies
Letters to His Wife (1994) 18 copies
Questions III et IV (1990) 18 copies
Duns Scotus's Doctrine of Categories and Meaning (1916) — Author — 16 copies
Zur Sache des Denkens (1969) 16 copies
Varat och tiden. D. 2 (1981) 16 copies
The History of Beyng (2011) 14 copies
Hölderlin's Hymn "Remembrance" (1992) — Author — 13 copies
Il nichilismo europeo (2003) 10 copies
Über den Anfang [GA 70] (2005) 10 copies
Hebel de huisvriend (2001) 9 copies
La poesia di Hölderlin (1988) 8 copies
Introduzione all'estetica (2005) 8 copies
Anaximandrův výrok (1997) 6 copies
Questions, tome I (1968) 6 copies
Frühe Schriften (1972) 6 copies
Questions IV (1966) 5 copies
Escritos Políticos (1995) 5 copies
Heidegger 5 copies
Rektorski govor (1987) 4 copies
LA VUELTA (1990) 4 copies
Pensamientos poéticos (2010) 4 copies
La pobreza (2007) 3 copies
EL PRINCIPIO DE IDENTIDAD (1997) 3 copies
Dusuncenin Cagrisi (2010) 3 copies
Básnicky bydlí člověk (2006) 3 copies
¿Y PARA QUÉ POETAS? (2004) 3 copies
Questions, tome II (1968) 3 copies
Tiempo e historia (2009) 3 copies
Jean Palmier 2 copies
La cosa 2 copies
Briefe an Max Müller. (2003) 2 copies
Hvad vil tænkning sige? (2012) 2 copies
Filosofia e cibernetica (1988) 2 copies
Odczyty i rozprawy (2007) 2 copies
Věk obrazu světa (2013) 2 copies
Sproget og ordet (2000) 1 copy
Heraklit 1 copy
Hvorfor digtere? (2020) 1 copy
Vier Hefte I Und II: (2019) 1 copy
Etica e destino (1997) 1 copy
Questions I 1 copy
Martin Heidegger (1983) — Contributor — 1 copy
On Inception (2023) 1 copy
Logica e linguaggio (2008) 1 copy
Poljski put 1 copy
Che cos'è la verità? (2011) 1 copy
Briefe Und Begegnungen (2003) 1 copy
Pensivement 1 copy
Sprog og hjemstavn (2008) 1 copy
Gedachtes (2007) 1 copy
Sprache 1 copy
index 1 copy
Karl Jaspers 1 copy
LA PALABRA 1 copy
Los futuros 1 copy
Roger Munier 1 copy
Cartas 1 copy
EL HABLA 1 copy
EL POEMA 1 copy

Associated Works

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (1956) — Contributor — 2,075 copies
Western Philosophy: An Anthology (1996) — Author, some editions — 184 copies
The Phenomenology Reader (2002) — Contributor — 93 copies
Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays (1966) — Contributor — 41 copies
The Presocratics After Heidegger (1999) — Contributor — 15 copies
Erkenntnis und Sein I Epistemologie. (1978) — Contributor — 5 copies
Wijsgerige teksten over de wereld (1964) — Contributor — 2 copies
Le Débat, numéro 27 (novembre 1983) (1983) — Contributor — 1 copy
実存と虚無 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Heil Heidegger! in Philosophy and Theory (November 2016)
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How in the world could one possibly give a star-based rating to anything by Heidegger? I did attempt a bit of discussion here:https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/the-flash-bang-of-quick-reading/
 
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KatrinkaV | 6 other reviews | Feb 25, 2024 |
Hard going but it was worth it! I've become more interested in his later writing, meanwhile, which helps to shed more light on some of the obscurities in this work.
 
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breathslow | 9 other reviews | Jan 27, 2024 |
One shouldn’t forget that Pythagorean cryptic utterance: “Do not cut in two what is on the road.”

Philosophy indeed, it seems, is a road. The utterance means then: choose that philosophy and that road to wisdom in which you will not ‘cut in two’, in which you will propound, not contradictions, but firm and unchanging truths. Yet with the introduction of that scission dividing the ontic and the ontological, we find ourselves sitting at the very road cut in two we swore would be untouched. As the philosopher too concerned with the psychophysical, we begin and end with the wrong tools and placements of anything through which one cannot work out of. When Heidegger begins to enter ‘in-the-world’ we begin to see this as a precedent to ramble upon the endless infinite variations that prompt themselves to the physical—a Pollock painting of verbs serving no philosophical use. Through the obvious obfuscation only evident in the confused and the obscuring of Daoist origins do we finally understand the relevance of the entire deviation of authenticities and inauthenticities that permeates a portion of this book. That play of words that becomes the archonic instrument breathing dualisms finds itself losing its charm after every verb is a proverbial transmitting, charioteering, boomeranging (and so on) into new fractal amorphous verbs. The modalities are endless for all and Heidegger gets lost in the complexity while ultimately not doing metaphysics, but rather displacing common orderings of semantics. The case of the phenomenologist who identifies with his phenomenology. Though one may disagree with the book in its entirety, partially nod along or frown with foul intent, one must admire the beautific simplicity of Dasein, the self-reflexive meta-fictionalized Reader whose thoughts are splain in real-time and whose splaying is thought of in itself—though these “places” may not be of use. It’s format certainly is. The book ends with an unfinished question mark. Or rather, a concretized question mark with no discernible answer since the Aletheia of such inquiry would result in absolute blissful theurgy.

That demiurgic intellect placed in the crux of the theurgic One. I solemnly weep, won’t you respond? I am you. Be.
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